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On the coast
of Maine, where many green islands and salt inlets fringe the deep-cut
shore line; where
balsam firs and bayberry bushes
send their fragrance far seaward, and song sparrows [song-sparrows] sing
all day, and the tide runs plashing in and out among the weedy ledges;
where cowbells tinkle on the hills and herons stand in the shady coves,
-- on the lonely coast of Maine stood a small gray house facing the morning
light. All the weather-beaten houses of that region face the sea apprehensively,
like the women who live in them.

This home
of four people was as bleached and gray with wind and rain as one of the
pasture [stones] [rocks]
close by. There were some cinnamon rose bushes
under the window at one side of the door, and a stunted lilac at the other
side. It was so early in the cool morning that nobody was astir but some
shy birds, that had come in the stillness of dawn to pick and flutter in
the short grass.

They flew
away together as some one softly opened the unlocked door and stepped out.
This was a bent old man, who shaded his eyes with his hand, and looked
at the west and the east and overhead, and then took a few lame and feeble
steps farther out to see a wooden vane on the barn. Then he sat down on
the doorstep, clasped his hands together between his knees, and looked
steadily out to sea, scanning the horizon where some schooners had held
on their [way] [course]
all night[,] with a light westerly breeze.
He seemed to be satisfied [with] [at
sight of] the weather, as if he had been anxious, as he lay unassured
in his north bedroom, vexed with the sleeplessness of age and excited by
thoughts of the coming day. The old seaman dozed as he sat on the doorstep,
while dawn came up and the world grew bright; and the little birds returned,
fearfully at first, to finish their breakfast, and at last made bold to
hop close to his feet.

After a time
some one else came and stood in the open door behind him.

"Why, father!
seems to me you've got an early start; 't ain't but four o'clock. I thought
I was foolish to get up so soon, but 't wa'n't so I could sleep."

"No, [Lucy
Ann] [darter]." The old man smiled
as he turned to look at her, wide awake on the instant. "'T ain't so soon
as I git out some o' these 'arly mornin's. The birds wake me up singin',
and it's [so] [plenty]
light, you know. I wanted to make sure 'Lisha would have a fair day to
go."

"I expect
he'd have to go if the weather wa'n't good," said the woman.

"Yes, yes,
but 't is useful to have fair weather, an' a good sign some says it is.
This is a great event for the boy, ain't it?"

"I can't face
the thought o' losin' on him, father." The woman came forward a step or
two and sat down on the doorstep. She was a hard-worked, anxious creature,
whose face had lost all look of youth. She was apt, in the general course
of things, to hurry the old man and to spare little time for talking, and
he was pleased by this acknowledged unity of their interests. He moved
aside a little to give her more room, and glanced at her with a smile[,]
as if to beg her to speak freely. They were both undemonstrative, taciturn
New Englanders; their hearts were warm with pent-up feeling, that summer
morning, yet it was easier to understand one another through silence than
through speech.

"No, I couldn't
git much sleep," repeated the daughter at last. "Some things I thought
of that ain't come to mind before for years, -- things I don't relish the
feelin' of, all over again."

"'T was just
such a mornin' as this[,] pore little 'Lisha's
father went off on that last v'y'ge o' his," answered the old sailor, with
instant comprehension. "Yes, you've had it master hard, pore gal, ain't
you? I advised him against goin' off on that old vessel with a crew that
wa'n't capable."

"Such a mornin'
as this, when I come out at sun-up, I always seem to see her tops'ils over
there beyond the p'int, where she was to anchor. Well, I thank Heaven 'Lisha
was averse to goin' to sea," declared the mother.

"There's dangers
ashore, Lucy Ann," said the grandfather[,]
solemnly; but there was no answer, and they sat there in silence until
the old man grew drowsy again.

"Yisterday
was the first time it fell onto my heart that 'Lisha was goin' off," the
mother began again, after a time had passed. "[P'r'aps
folks was right about our needing of him.] I've been workin' every
way I could to further him and git him a real good chance up to Boston,
and now that we've got to part with him I don't see how to put up with
it."

"All nateral,"
insisted the old man. "My mother wept the night through before I was goin'
to sail on my first v'y'ge; she was kind of satisfied, though, when I come
home next summer, grown a full man, with my savin's in my pocket, an' I
had a master pretty little figured shawl I'd bought
for her to Bristol."

"I don't want
no shawls. Partin' is partin' to me," said the woman.

"'T ain't
everybody can stand in her fore-door [foredoor] an' see the chimbleys o'
three child'n's houses without a glass," he tried eagerly to console her.
"All ready an' willin' to do their part for you, so as you could let 'Lisha
go off and have his chance."

"I don't know
how it is," she answered, "but none on 'em never give me the rooted home
feelin' that 'Lisha has. They was more varyin' and kind o' fast growin'
and scatterin'; but 'Lisha was always 'Lisha when he was a babe, and I
settled on him for the one to keep with me."

"Then he's
just the kind to send off, one you ain't got to worry about. They're all
good child'n," said the man. "We've reason to be thankful none on 'em 's
been like some young sprigs, more grief 'n glory to their folks. An' I
ain't regrettin' 'Lisha's goin' one mite; I believe you'd rather go on
doin' for him an' cossetin'. I think 't was high time to shove him out
o' the nest."

"You ain't
his mother," said Lucy Ann.

"What be you
goin' to give him for his breakfast?" asked the stern grandfather, in a
softened, less business-like voice.

"I don't know
's I'd thought about it[,] special, sir. I
did lay aside that piece o' apple pie we had left yisterday from dinner,"
she confessed.

"Fry him out
a nice little crisp piece o' pork, Lucy Ann, an' 't will relish with his
baked potatoes. He'll think o' his breakfast more times 'n you expect.
I know a lad's feelin's when home's put behind him."

The sun was
up clear and bright over the broad sea inlet to the eastward, but the shining
water struck the eye by its look of vacancy. It was broad daylight, and
still so early that no sails came stealing out from the farmhouse landings,
or even from the gray groups of battered fish-houses that overhung, here
and there, a sheltered cove. Some crows and gulls were busy in the air;
it was the time of day when the world belongs more to birds than to men.

"Poor 'Lisha!"
the mother went on compassionately. "I expect it has been a long night
to him. He seemed to take it in, as he was goin' to bed, how 't was his
last night to home. I heard him thrashin' about kind o' restless[,]
sometimes."

"Come, Lucy
Ann, the boy ought to be stirrin'!" exclaimed the old sailor, without the
least show of sympathy. "He's got to be ready when John Sykes comes, an'
he ain't so quick as some lads."

The mother
rose with a sigh, and went into the house. After her own sleepless night,
she dreaded to face the regretful, sleepless eyes of her son; but as she
opened the door of his little bedroom, there lay Elisha sound asleep and
comfortable to behold. She stood watching him with gloomy tenderness until
he stirred uneasily, his consciousness roused by the intentness of her
thought[,] and the mysterious current that
flowed from her wistful, eager eyes.

But when the
lad waked, it was to a joyful sense of manliness and responsibility; for
him the change of surroundings was coming through natural processes of
growth, not through the uprooting which gave his mother such an aching
heart.

A little later
Elisha came out to the breakfast table [breakfast-table], arrayed in his
best sandy-brown clothes set off with a bright blue satin cravat[,]
which had been the pride and delight of pleasant Sundays and rare holidays.
He already felt unrelated to the familiar scene of things, and was impatient
to be gone. For one thing, it was strange to sit down to breakfast in Sunday
splendor, while his mother and grandfather and little sister Lydia were
in their humble every-day attire. They ate in silence and haste, as they
always did, but with a new constraint and awkwardness that forbade their
looking at one another. At last the head of the household broke the silence
with simple straightforwardness.

"You've got
an excellent good day, 'Lisha. I like to have a fair start myself. 'T ain't
goin' to be too hot; the wind's working into the north a little."

"Yes, sir,"
responded Elisha.

"The great
p'int about gittin' on in life is bein' able to cope with your headwinds,"
continued the old man earnestly, pushing away his plate. "Any fool can
run before a fair breeze, but I tell ye a good seaman is one that gits
the best out o' his disadvantages. You won't be treated so pretty as you
expect in the store, and you'll git plenty o' blows to your pride; but
you keep right ahead, and if you can't run before the wind you can always
beat. I ain't no hand to preach, but preachin' ain't goin' to sarve ye
now. We've gone an' fetched ye up the best we could, your mother an' me,
an' you can't never say but you've started amongst honest folks. If a vessel's
built out o' sound timber an' has got good lines for sailin', why then
she's seaworthy; but if she ain't, she ain't[,]
[;] an' a mess o' preachin' ain't goin' to
alter her over. Now you're standin' out to sea, my boy, an' you can bear
your home in mind and work your way, same 's plenty of others has done."

It was a solemn
moment; the speaker's voice faltered, and little Lydia dried her tearful
blue eyes with her gingham apron. Elisha hung his head, and patted the
old spotted cat which came to rub herself against his trowsers-leg. The
mother rose hastily, and hurried into the pantry close by. She was always
an appealing figure, with her thin shoulders and faded calico gowns; it
was difficult to believe that she had once been the prettiest girl in that
neighborhood. But her son loved her in his sober, undemonstrative way,
and was full of plans for coming home[,] rich
and generous enough to make her proud and happy. He was half pleased and
half annoyed because his leave-taking was of such deep concern to the household.

"Come, Lyddy,
don't you take on," he said, with rough kindliness. "Let's go out, and
I'll show you how to feed the pig and 'tend to the chickens. You'll have
to be chief clerk when I'm gone."

They went
out to the yard, hand in hand. Elisha stopped to stroke the old cat again,
as she ran by his side and mewed. "I wish I was off and done with it; this
morning does seem awful long," said the boy.

"Ain't you
afraid you'll be homesick an' want to come back?" asked the little sister
timidly; but Elisha scorned so poor a thought.

"You'll have
to see if grandpa has 'tended to these things, the pig an' the chickens,"
he advised her gravely. "He forgets 'em sometimes when I'm away, but he
would be cast down if you told him so, and you just keep an eye open, Lyddy.
Mother's got enough to do inside the house. But grandsir 'll keep her in
kindlin's; he likes to set and chop in the shed rainy days, an' he'll do
a sight more if you'll set with him, an' let him get goin' on his old seafarin'
times."

Lydia nodded
discreetly.

"An', Lyddy,
don't you loiter comin' home from school, an' don't [be]
[play] out late, an' get 'em fussy, when it
comes cold weather. And you tell Susy Draper," -- the boy's voice sounded
unconcerned, but Lydia glanced at him quickly, -- "you tell Susy Draper
that I was awful sorry she was over to her aunt's, so I couldn't say good-by."

Lydia's heart
was the heart of a woman, and she comprehended. Lydia nodded again, more
sagely than before.

Lydia's face
was blank with surprise. "I thought you promised to sell him to big Jim
Hooper."

"I did, but
I don't care for big Jim Hooper; you just tell him I let my woodchuck go."

The brother
and sister went to their favorite playground between the ledges, not far
from the small old barn. Here was a clumsy box with wire gratings, behind
which an untamed little wild beast sat up and chittered at his harmless
foes. "He's a whopping old fellow," said Elisha admiringly. "Big Jim Hooper
sha'n't have him!" and as he opened the trap[,]
Lydia had hardly time to perch herself high on the ledge[,]
before the woodchuck tumbled and scuttled along the short green turf, and
was lost among the clumps of juniper and bayberry just beyond.

"I feel just
like him," said the boy. "I want to get up to Boston just as bad as that.
See here, now!" and he flung a gallant cartwheel of himself in the same
direction, and then stood on his head and waved his legs furiously in the
air. "I feel just like that."

Lydia, who
had been tearful all the morning, looked at him in vague dismay. Only a
short time ago she had never been made to feel that her brother was so
much older than herself. They had been constant playmates; but now he was
like a grown man, and cared no longer for their old pleasures. There was
all [the] possible difference between them
that there can be between fifteen years and twelve, and Lydia was nothing
but a child.

"Come, come,
where be ye?" shouted the old grandfather, and they both started guiltily.
Elisha rubbed some dry grass out of his short cropped [short-cropped] hair,
and the little sister came down from her ledge. At that moment the real
pang of parting shot through her heart; her brother belonged irrevocably
to a wider world.

"Ma'am Stover
has sent for ye to come over; she wants to say good-by to ye!" [cried]
[shouted] the grandfather, leaning on his
two canes at the end of the barn. "Come, step lively, an' remember you
ain't got none too much time, [and] [an']
the boat ain't goin' to wait a minute for nobody."

"Ma'am Stover?"
repeated the boy, with a frown. He and his sister knew only too well the
pasture path between the two houses. Ma'am Stover was a bedridden woman,
who had seen much trouble, -- a town charge in her old age. Her neighbors
gave to her generously out of their own slender stores. Yet with all this
poverty and dependence, she held firm sway over the customs and opinions
of her acquaintance, from the uneasy bed where she lay year in and year
out, watching the far sea line beyond a pasture slope.

The young
people walked fast, sometimes running a little way, light-footed, the boy
going ahead, and burst into their neighbor's room out of breath.

She was calm
and critical, and their excitement had a sudden chill.

"So the great
day's come at last, 'Lisha?" she asked; at which [Elisha]
['Lisha] was conscious of unnecessary aggravation.

"I don't know
's it's much of a day -- to anybody but me," he added, discovering a twinkle
in her black eyes that was more sympathetic than usual. "I expected to
stop an' see you last night; but I had to go round and see all our folks,
and when I got back 't was late and the tide was down, an' I knew that
grandsir couldn't git the boat up all alone to our lower landin'."

"Well, I didn't
forgit you, but I thought p'r'aps you might forgit me, an' I'm goin' to
give ye somethin'. 'T is for your folks' sake; I want ye to tell 'em so.
I don't want ye never to part with it, even if it fails [in
time] [to work] and you git proud an'
want a new one. It's been a sight o' company to me." She reached up, with
a flush on her wrinkled cheeks and tears in her eyes, and took a worn old
silver watch from its nail, and handed it, with a last look at its white
face and large gold hands, to the startled boy.

"Oh, I can't
take it from ye, Ma'am Stover. I'm just as much obliged to you," he faltered.

"There, go
now, dear, go right along," said the old woman, turning quickly away. "Be
a good boy for your folks' sake. If so be that I'm here when you come home,
you can let me see how well you've kep' it."

The boy and
girl went softly out, leaving the door wide open, as Ma'am Stover liked
to have it in summer weather, her windows being small and few. There were
neighbors near enough to come and shut it[,]
if a heavy shower blew up. Sometimes the song sparrows
and whippoorwills came hopping in about the
little bare room.

"I felt kind
of 'shamed to carry off her watch," protested Elisha, with a radiant face
that belied his honest words.

"Put it on,"
said proud little Lydia, trotting alongside; and he hooked the bright steel
chain into his buttonhole, and looked down to see how it shone across his
waistcoat. None of his friends had so fine a watch; even his grandfather's
was so poor a timekeeper that it was rarely worn except as a decoration
on Sundays or at a funeral. They hurried home. Ma'am Stover, lying in her
bed, could see the two slight figures nearly all the way on the pasture
path[,] [;] flitting
along in their joyful haste.

It was disappointing
that the mother and grandfather had so little to say about the watch. In
fact, Elisha's grandfather only said "Pore creatur'" once or twice, and
turned away, rubbing his eyes with the back of his hand. If Ma'am Stover
had chosen to give so rich a gift, to know the joy of such generosity,
nobody had a right to protest. Yet nobody knew how much the poor wakeful
soul would miss the only one of her meagre possessions that seemed alive
and companionable in lonely hours. Somebody had said once that there were
chairs that went about on wheels, made on purpose for crippled persons
like Ma'am Stover; and Elisha's heart was instantly filled with delight
at [this] [the]
remembrance. Perhaps before long, if he could save some money and get ahead,
he would buy one of those chairs and send it down from Boston; and a new
sense of power filled his honest heart. He had dreamed a great many dreams
already of what he meant to do with all his money, when he came home rich
and a person of consequence, in summer vacations.

The large
leather valise was soon packed, and its owner carried it out to the roadside,
and put his last winter's overcoat and a great new umbrella beside it,
so as to be ready when John Sykes came with the wagon. He was more and
more anxious to be gone, and felt no sense of his old identification with
the home interests. His mother said sadly that he would be gone full soon
enough, when he joined his grandfather in accusing Mr. Sykes of keeping
them waiting forever and making him miss the boat. There were three rough
roundabout miles to be traveled to the steamer landing, and the Sykes horses
were known to be slow. But at last the team came nodding in sight over
a steep hill in the road.

Then the moment
of parting had come, the moment toward which all the long late winter and
early summer had looked. The boy was leaving his plain little home for
the great adventure of his life's fortunes. Until [now]
[then] he had been the charge and anxiety
of his elders, and under their rule and advice. Now he was free to choose[:]
[;] his was the power of direction, his the
responsibility[:] [;]
for in the world one must be ranked by his own character and ability, and
doomed by his own failures. The boy lifted his burden lightly, and turned
with an eager smile to say farewell. But the old people and little Lydia
were speechless with grief; they could not bear to part with the pride
and hope and boyish strength, that were all their slender joy. The worn-out
old man, the anxious woman who had been beaten and buffeted by the waves
of poverty and sorrow, the little sister with her dreaming heart, stood
at the bars and hungrily watched him go away. They feared success
for him almost as much as failure. The world was before
him now, with its treasures and pleasures, but with those inevitable
disappointments and losses which old people know and fear[,]
[;] those sorrows of incapacity and lack of
judgment which young hearts go out to meet without foreboding. It was a
world of love and favor to which little Lydia's brother had gone; but who
would know her fairy prince, in that disguise of a country boy's bashfulness
and humble raiment from the cheap counter of a country store? The household
stood rapt and silent until the farm wagon had made its last rise on the
hilly road and disappeared.

"Well, he's
left us now," said the sorrowful, hopeful old grandfather. "I expect I've
got to turn to an' be a boy again myself. I feel to hope 'Lisha'll do as
well as we covet for him. I seem to take it in, all my father felt when
he let me go off to sea. He stood where I'm standin' now, an' I was just
as triflin' as pore 'Lisha, and felt full as big as a man. But Lord! how
I give up when it come night, an' I took it in I was gone from home!"

"There, don't
ye, father," said the pale mother gently. She was, after all, the stronger
of the two. "'Lisha's good an' honest-hearted. You'll feel real proud a
year from now, when he gits back. I'm so glad he's got his watch to carry,
-- he did feel so grand. I expect them poor hens is sufferin'; nobody's
thought on 'em this livin' mornin'. You'd better step an' feed 'em right
away, sir." She could hardly speak for sorrow and excitement, but the old
man was diverted at once, and hobbled away with cheerful importance on
his two canes. Then she looked round at the poor, stony little farm almost
angrily. "He'd no natural turn for the sea, 'Lisha hadn't; but I might
have kept him with me if the land was good for anything."

Elisha felt
as if he were in a dream, now that his great adventure was begun. He answered
John Sykes's questions mechanically, and his head was a little dull and
dazed. Then he began to fear that the slow plodding of the farm horses
would make him too late for the steamboat, and with sudden satisfaction
pulled out the great watch to see if there were still time enough to get
to the landing. He was filled with remorse because it was impossible to
remember whether he had thanked Ma'am Stover for [it]
[her gift]. It seemed like a thing of life
and consciousness as he pushed it back into his tight pocket. John Sykes
looked at [it] [him]
curiously. "Why, that's old Ma'am Stover's timepiece, ain't it? Lend it
to ye, did she?"

"Gave it to
me," answered Elisha proudly.

"You be careful
of [it] [that watch],"
said the driver [soberly]; and Elisha nodded
[soberly].

"Well, good-day
[to ye]; be a stiddy lad," advised John Sykes,
a few minutes afterward. "Don't start in too smart an' scare 'm up to Boston.
Pride an' ambition was the downfall o' old
Cole's dog. There, sonny, the bo't ain't nowheres in sight, for all
your fidgetin'!"

They both
smiled broadly at the humorous warning, and as the old wagon rattled away[,]
Elisha stood a moment looking after it; then he went down to the wharf
by winding ways among piles of decayed timber and disused lobster-pots.
A small group of travelers and spectators had already assembled, and they
stared at him in a way that made him feel separated from his kind, though
some of them had come to see him [off] [depart].
One unenlightened acquaintance inquired if Elisha were expecting friends
by that morning's boat; and when he explained that he was going away himself,
asked kindly whether it was to be as far as Bath.
Elisha mentioned the word "Boston" with scorn and compassion, but he did
not feel like discussing his brilliant prospects now, as he had been more
than ready to do the week before. Just then a deaf old woman asked for
the time of day. She sat next to him on the battered bench.

"Be you going
up to Bath, dear?" she demanded suddenly; and he said yes. "Guess I'll
stick to you, then, fur 's you go; 't is a kind o' blind in them big places."
[And] Elisha faintly nodded a meek but grudging
assent; then, after a few moments, he boldly rose, tall umbrella in hand,
and joined the talkative company of [old and]
young [and old] men at the other side of the
wharf. They proceeded to make very light of a person's going to Boston
to enter upon his business career; but, after all, their thoughts were
those of mingled respect and envy. Most of them had seen Boston, but no
one save Elisha was going there that day to stay for a whole year. It made
him feel like a city man.

The steamer
whistled loud and hoarse before she came in sight, but presently the gay
flags showed close by above the pointed spruces. Then she came jarring
against the wharf, and the instant bustle and hurry, the strange faces
of the passengers, and the loud rattle of freight going on board[,]
were as confusing and exciting as if a small piece of Boston itself had
been dropped into that quiet cove.

The people
on the wharf shouted cheerful good-byes, to which the young traveler responded;
then he seated him self [himself] well astern to enjoy the views, and felt
as if he had made a thousand journeys. He bought a newspaper, and began
to read it with much pride and a beating heart. The little old woman came
and sat [next] [beside]
him, and talked straight on whether he listened or not, until he was afraid
of what the other passengers might think[:]
[,] but nobody looked that way, and he could
not find anything in the paper that he cared to read. Alone, but unfettered
and aflame with courage; to himself he was not the boy who went away, but
the proud man who one day would be coming home.

"Goin' to
Boston, be ye?" asked the old lady for the third time; and it was still
a pleasure to say yes, when the boat swung round, and there, far away on
its gray and green pasture slope, with the dark evergreens standing back,
were the low gray house, [and] the little
square barn, and the lines of fence that shut in his home. He strained
his eyes to see if any one were watching from the door. He had almost forgotten
that they could see him still. He sprang to the boat's side: yes, his mother
remembered; there was something white waving from the doorway. The whole
landscape faded from his eyes except that far-away gray house; his heart
leaped back with love and longing; he gazed and gazed, until a height of
green forest came between and shut the picture out. Then the country boy
went on alone to make his way in the wide world.

Notes

"By the Morning
Boat" first appeared in Atlantic Monthly (65:83-89) in January 1890,
and then was collected in Strangers and Wayfarers. This is the Atlantic
Monthly text. Common contractions have been closed (e.g. that's, didn't). [ Back ]

balsam firs
and bayberry bushes: Balsam fir is Abies balsamea, sometimes
called Balm of Gilead. Bayberry is a short, thick wild bush which grows
along the coast in New England; the wax from its berries is used to make
scented candles; represents `instruction' in the nineteenth-century language
of flowers (Research, Ted Eden). [ Back ]

cinnamon
rose bushes: a species of rose (R. cinnamonea). Biographer Francis
Matthiessen reports that as a child, Jewett would make a coddle of cinnamon
rose petals with cinnamon and brown sugar. See Chapter 1. [ Back ]

Bristol:
A major seaport in southwestern England, at the mouth of the river Avon. [ Back
]

whippoorwills:
this species of nightjar has a distinctive song it sings nocturnally (Research
-- Allison Easton). The song sparrow is a common North American song-bird
of the genus Melospiza, esp. M. fasciata (or melodia)
and cinerea.” (Source: Oxford English Dictionary). [ Back
]

world was before
him: John Milton (1608-1674) ends Paradise Lost (1667) with
these lines:

The World
was all before them, where to choose Their place
of rest. . . . [ Back
]

old Cole's
dog: Southey's Common-place
Book (1851), by Robert Southey with a preface by John Wood Warter,
contains the following snippet: "THE pride of old Cole's dog, who
took the wall of a dungcart, and got his guts squeezed out," p. 428.
Available at http://books.google.com/books?id=UhwlAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1&dq=southey%27s+common-place. [ Back
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Bath: Bath,
Maine is a small port about 30 miles northeast of Portland. [ Back ]